1989 - 2026
A walk through Nintendo's handheld legacy — from the brick-sized Game Boy to the glasses-free 3DS.
Explore Nintendo's revolutionary handheld consoles from 1989 to 2025, each device pushing the boundaries of portable gaming.
The original Game Boy revolutionized portable gaming with a durable design, long battery life, and iconic titles like Tetris and Pokémon for retro fans.
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Console of the Month
The Game Boy Micro was the smallest Game Boy ever made, featuring a bright backlit screen in an ultra-portable design.
ARM7TDMI (32-bit) @ 16.78 MHz
2-inch TFT LCD, 240×160 pixels, backlit with adjustable brightness
D-pad, A/B/L/R buttons, Start/Select
Rechargeable lithium-ion, approximately 5-8 hours
Game of the Month
A homebrew first-person raycaster for the original Game Boy: four randomly generated maze floors, keys and doors, grunts, bats and brutes, and three save slots.
2026
Zapskii
First-person shooter
3 battery-backed slots
32 KB ROM (MBC1 + battery RAM)
4, randomly generated each run
github.com/Zapskii/GB-FPS-Dungeon
1
GBDK-2020 + SM83 assembly
Stone-brick border
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We kept rebuilding the same Super Game Boy border kit for every game, so we fixed its bugs, added real tests and gave it away. Here's what's in GB-SGB-Tooling.